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Video. Iranian influx boosts Iraq's Arbaeen pilgrimage

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Twenty million pilgrims have converged on the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala to mark Arbaeen, an annual Shia festival that culminates on Saturday.

Twenty million pilgrims, swollen by a record influx of Iranians, have converged on the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala to mark Arbaeen, an annual Shiite festival that culminates Saturday.

It is one of the world's largest religious gatherings, watched closely in Iraq and neighbouring Iran, both of which have a Shiite majority.

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